22 ways we’ve advanced AGENDA 22 in the last year

Last year, we launched AGENDA 22, an uncensored vision of a better future for Jackson Hole and a blueprint for how we can make our community a national model of living in balance with nature. You can learn more about AGENDA 22 here.

AGENDA 22 explains the challenges we face as a community, a positive vision of responding to these challenges, balanced solutions we can adopt to achieve this vision, stories of people working to make this vision a reality, indicators we can use to measure our progress toward this vision, and tangible things you can do to help make it happen.

Through an honest conversation about the long-term consequences of our decisions based on facts and data, empowering countless volunteer leaders to work together toward a better future, collaboration with our partners on campaigns to realize tangible change, holding our elected representatives accountable for making decisions in our community’s best long-term interest, and with the support of people like you, we’ve taken large strides toward the AGENDA 22 vision of a community living in balance with nature over the past year.

Here are 22 ways the Alliance helped our community advance the AGENDA 22 vision over the past year:

Protected our American public lands through supporting both the Jackson Town Council and Teton County Board of Commissioners inpassing resolutions recognizing the value of our public lands and opposing their transfer to state control, and rallying people to speak out against both state and federal bills threatening our American public lands.

Started research on the “State of Wildlife” project, a study that will examine the status of and threats to wildlife in Jackson Hole.

Supported Grand Teton National Park in developing a Moose-Wilson Corridor Comprehensive Management Plan that focuses on protecting wildlife and habitat in the corridor, while making it easier and safer for people to visit the corridor on foot, bicycle, and corridor-appropriate public transit.

Partnered with the Greater Yellowstone Coalition to reach a resolution with the Forest Service that takes an important step toward reducing our reliance on supplemental elk feeding.

Worked collaboratively with an “informal group” of diverse stakeholders to develop and agree on recommendations to encourage the permanent protection of open space through updates to our rural land use rules, many of which were incorporated by the Teton County Board of Commissioners in the recently adopted update to our rural area land development regulations (LDRs). These updated rural LDRs direct approximately 2,500 residential units out of the rural areas of our valley, which will help our community accomplish our goal of directing 60% of future growth into complete neighborhoods, the largest of which is the Town of Jackson.

Rallied hundreds of people to speak for updates to our downtown land use rules that will benefit local small businesses as they work to house and keep their hard-working employees, keep downtown vibrant and the heart of our town, and prioritize housing our community’s middle class.

Encouraged the Jackson Town Council and Teton County Board of Commissioners to adopt an integrated transportation plan (ITP) that takes constructive steps toward our community’s vision of people having the freedom to safely and conveniently get where they need to go on foot, bike, or transit, while not expanding the highways that divide our community.

Co-hosted a meeting regarding potentialsolutions to summer traffic congestion with the Teton Village ISD involving twenty representatives from Grand Teton National Park, Teton County, Town of Jackson, WYDOT, Bridger Teton National Forest, START Bus, and Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce.

Launched a Leadership Council to help keep our values and actions aligned with the community we serve.

Thank you for everything you have done to help advance these balanced solutions that protect the wildlife, wild places, and community character of Jackson Hole. We can’t wait to see what we are able to accomplish together this coming year as we collaborate toward a better future for our community.